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which is the county seat of Frederick county, had shipped 

 more apples in the year 1909 than the whole state of Oregon, 

 and that the adjoining county in West A'irginia had shipped 

 as many as the whole state of Washington. At once there was 

 an uproar, but fortunately the authorities from the Agri- 

 cultural Department were present in the room and had 

 the figures. I merely mention that to show the de- 

 velopment here in the East. x^nd what struck me as 

 being one of the most practical things about that state- 

 ment, after I got through and the Committee adjourned, 

 a representative from A'irginia, my own state, from Richmond, 

 who expects to be chairman of the Committee on Agriculture 

 of the next House, came down on the floor of the committee 

 and introduced himself to me. I knew him before but he 

 didn't know me, and he said : "I am very glad to know you, 

 Mr. Lupton, and I am surprised at the statements you have 

 made about the way you are growing apples. I didn't know 

 Virginia grew any apples." Now there you are, a man that 

 expects to be chairman of the Committee on Agriculture in 

 the next House who didn't know that his own state was 

 growing apples. So you see what we have got to overcome. 

 As a result of that meeting in Washington, we found out 

 these eastern apple growers were not united on anything, not 

 because our purposes were not identical, but simply because 

 we didn't get together. So about two months ago a number 

 of men representing West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

 New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, organized what was 

 called at that time the Eastern Fruit Growers' xA.ssociation, the 

 objects of which were to secure such legislation as would be 

 of interest to the fruit grower. First we thought we might 

 have something to say about the parcels post ; then we thought 

 we would like to have the Secretary of Agriculture give au- 

 thority to prevent the sending of infected nursery stock. Then 

 we thought we would like to have some standard packing and 

 packages. We didn't sa}- anything about the tariff, because 

 I guess we didn't quite dare to. 



